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40Engaging Science through Cultural StudiesPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1994. 1994.The paper introduces cultural studies of science as an alternative to the "legitimation project" in philosophy and sociology of science. The legitimation project stems from belief that the epistemic standing and cultural authority of the sciences need general justification, and that such justification (or its impossibility) arises from the nature or characteristic aim of the sciences. The paper considers three central themes of cultural studies apart from its rejection of these commitments to th…Read more
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35Feminism and the social construction of scientific knowledgeIn Lynn Hankinson Nelson & Jack Nelson (eds.), Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science, . pp. 195--215. 1996.
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30Barad's Feminist NaturalismHypatia 19 (1): 142-161. 2004.Philosophical naturalism is ambiguous between conjoining philosophy with science or with nature understood scientifically. Reconciliation of this ambiguity is necessary but rarely attempted. Feminist science studies often endorse the former naturalism but criticize the second. Karen Barad's agential realism, however, constructively reconciles both senses. Barad then challenges traditional metaphysical naturalisms as not adequately accountable to science. She also contributes distinctively to fem…Read more
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29Articulating the World: Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific ImageUniversity of Chicago Press. 2015.Naturalism as a guiding philosophy for modern science both disavows any appeal to the supernatural or anything else transcendent to nature, and repudiates any philosophical or religious authority over the workings and conclusions of the sciences. A longstanding paradox within naturalism, however, has been the status of scientific knowledge itself, which seems, at first glance, to be something that transcends and is therefore impossible to conceptualize within scientific naturalism itself. In Art…Read more
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28Review of Georg Gasser (ed.), How Successful is Naturalism? (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (2). 2008.
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25Review: Vampires: Social Constructivism, Realism, and Other Philosophical Undead (review)History and Theory 41 (1): 60-78. 2002.Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Science by Andre Kukla The Social Construction of What? by Ian Hacking.
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22Remedios and Fuller on normativity and sciencePhilosophy of the Social Sciences 33 (4): 464-471. 2003.
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113. Interpretation in Natural and Human ScienceIn David R. Hiley, James Bohman & Richard Shusterman (eds.), The Interpretive turn: philosophy, science, culture, Cornell University Press. pp. 42-56. 1991.
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10Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Analysis. Barry Barnes, David Bloor, John HenryIsis 87 (4): 764-766. 1996.
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9Cultural Collisions: Post-Modern Technoscience by Raphael Sassower (review)Isis 87 582-583. 1996.
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94 From Realism or Antirealism to Science as SolidarityIn Charles Guignon & David R. Hiley (eds.), Richard Rorty, Cambridge University Press. pp. 81. 2003.
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9Heidegger's Philosophy of ScienceIn Hubert L. Dreyfus & Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), A Companion to Heidegger, Blackwell. 2005.
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8Heidegger on Science and NaturalismIn Gary Gutting (ed.), Continental Philosophy of Science, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains section titled: Science and Philosophy in Being and Time BACHELARD The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking.
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7Arguing for the Natural Ontological AttitudePSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1988 (1): 294-301. 1988.In several recent papers, Arthur Fine has developed a far-reaching attack upon both the standard realist interpretations of science and their most prominent anti-realist alternatives (1986a, 1986b, 1986c). In their place, Fine proposes not another position on the realist/anti-realist axis, but an attitude toward science, the “natural ontological attitude” (NOA), which is supposed to remove any felt need for a philosophical interpretation of science.In this paper I will be concerned with Fine’s r…Read more
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3Social Practices as Biological Niche ConstructionThe University of Chicago Press. 2023.The book integrates humans’ biological lives as animals with acculturation and interaction within diverse social worlds. Recent work in evolutionary biology, the social theory of practices, and cognition as embodied and enactive shows how aspects of human life often treated as social or cognitive are integrated “naturecultural” phenomena. Human evolution enables people’s varied biological development in practice-differentiated environments sustained by ongoing niche reconstruction. These naturec…Read more
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1Two concepts of practicesIn Karin Knorr Cetina, Theodore R. Schatzki & Eike von Savigny (eds.), The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory, Routledge. pp. 189--198. 2000.
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Engaging Science: How to Understand Its Practices PhilosophicallyBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 49 (2): 359-364. 1998.
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The Phenomenology of Observation in the Natural SciencesDissertation, Northwestern University. 1977.
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Power? KnowledgeIn Gary Gutting (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Foucault, Cambridge University Press. 1994.
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